BRADSTROM v. LASKER JEWELERS


259 Wis. 366 (1951)

BRADSTROM and wife, Appellants, vs. LASKER JEWELERS and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

June 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Cavanagh, Mittelstaed, Sheldon & Heide of Kenosha, attorneys, and Hansen, Kaiser & Steinbring of Eau Claire of counsel, and oral argument by William A. Sheldon.

For the respondents there was a brief by Ramsdell, King & Carroll of Eau Claire, for the Eau Claire Hotel Company, and by Farr & Brown of Eau Claire, for the Lasker Jewelers and Reynolds Hotel Company, and oral argument by Bailey E. Ramsdell and Donald R. Farr.


BROWN, J.

The safe-place statute under which the actions are brought provides:

"101.01 . . . (11) The term `safe' or `safety' as applied to . . . a public building, shall mean such freedom from danger to the life, health, safety, or welfare of . . . frequenters, or the public, . . . as the nature of the . . . public building, will reasonably permit."

It is conceded for the purposes of this appeal that the duty imposed by the statute is owed by defendants...

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